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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

They got a decision support tool that identified hospice patients or those who might benefit from a goals of care discussion. hospice use). But what we don’t know is are they already on hospice? Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy?

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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

GeriPal

But that is a conversation where the caregiver slash healthcare proxy is involved, because that is the place these people can be completely lucid and have a full conversation with us and make us completely clear about what their wishes are. Eric 34:23 Yeah, I just learned challenges of when discharging people to hospice on.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

Eric: So Susan, you have touched so many people in the field of hospice palliative medicine. And part of that job, they were looking for somebody to be a medical person in the local hospice. Was before the Medicare hospice benefit. And one was the Medicare hospice benefit. I’ll try to keep it a little shorter here.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Even if you haven’t completed a healthcare proxy, durable training for healthcare, most states say here’s a list of people who can make that decision in order. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics. Alex and Eric, both of you attend in geriatrics.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. It would have a CPR section and then it would have a healthcare proxy section. Because POLST doesn’t, I believe, correct me if I’m wrong, you can’t assign a durable power of attorney for healthcare or healthcare proxy. Welcome, Abby.

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